Find Eric’s latest entry “The Bird Flu Chronicles” on The Last Word on Nothing blog. In it he talks about one of the lab’s favorite penguins, Turbo. Here’s a short excerpt:
On my final day at Tombo, I made one last run to the gull colony. We would depart in the morning. How were we leaving the penguins? Much as we had found them, having a year like any other. Some were light and some heavy; some had mates and many did not; females laid eggs and the gulls or armadillos ate some of them; the colony continued its slow decline; and the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
